Congratulations, Guardians! We've successfully killed over 100 million enemies in Maximum Attack G. Our reward for this is a new bonus mission called Program DF! This mission can be accessed after clearing the main event mission. It contains an encounter with a new boss and has several new item drops!

Keep up the hard work. Our next goal is 120 million!

The Maximum Attack G item-exchange mission, Gifts from Beyond, was updated today with the following items and trade-in costs:

• PSO Disc 5 - 5 Gold Badges
• PSO Disc 6 - 5 Gold Badges
• Aura Field - 15 Gold Badges
• DB Line - 20 Gold Badges
• Pushan - 99 Gold Badges

This should be the last update for the item-exchange mission for the duration of the event.

Maximum Attack G players have unlocked the 80 million kill milestone prize - a 15% synthesis success bonus for weapons and line shields. This bonus will go into effect sometime after the event ends. Let's press on to 100 million!

Congratulations, everyone! We've just reached the 65 million point milestone in Maximum Attack G! As our reward, all clothes and parts will be half-priced for a two week period after the event ends.

Next stop: 80 million!

Ambition of the Illuminus players reached the 50 million kill milestone just a little bit ago. This milestone unlocks the eagerly-anticipated Ruins area! Also, players will now have access to several new rare items from the end-mission boxes. Please remember that the potential rare items will vary depending on which Phantasy Star Online NPC is in the party at the time.

EDIT: According to the latest news from the GM team, Rappy Paska will be appearing in the place of Rappy for the duration of Maximum Attack G.

For the past week, a large number of Phantasy Star Universe users have been experiencing problems with renewing their accounts. This has created considerable tension since they are unable to play through the Maximum Attack G event or contend for the kill count prizes. ChillAura announced today that Sega is working on resolving the problem. However, the process it taking a long time since it is a programming issue. The GM team is currently having discussions with Sonic Team about compensating users that are affected by this problem.

Earlier this morning, we reached the 35 million point milestone in Maximum Attack G. The reward for reaching this goal is the Treasure Chest! Following the end of the event, this room decoration will be passed to everyone who cleared the event mission at least once.

Keep up the great work, everyone! Our next goal is 50 million!

Maximum Attack G players have just unlocked the 20 million kill milestone prize - two weeks of boosted 10% synth success rates. This prize will definitely be useful to people who have S-Rank rares to synth. According to the website, this prize will go into effect after the completion of Maximum Attack G.

According to EspioKaos's translations of Shougai PSO and Rakuten, Phantasy Star Portable is scheduled to be released on July 31, 2008. These websites make reference to some tenative plans to include some form of integration with the PC/Playstation 2 version of Ambition of the Illuminus. This might include the ability to download various online character information. However, there is no definitve confirmation of this feature yet. In spite of this uncertainty, the following concrete details were announced:

• Special Mission - This mission will be released on Ambition of the Illuminus and Phantasy Star Portable to celebrate the game's release.
• 1500 Items - This will include weapons from Phantasy Star Universe and Ambition of the Illuminus.
• Multiple Endings - The ending you receive will depend on the choices you make while going through Story Mode.
• Downloadable Missions

For additional details, check out EspioKaos's thread.

Earlier today, Maximum Attack G players unlocked the 10 million kill milestone prize - two weeks of Mega Holy luck. This prize will be put into effect once the event ends. Let's continue to play fervently and press on to the 100 million milestone!

The game update released earlier in the week fixed several problems as detailed in this news post. However, a few additional fixes, bugs, and oddities have been discovered since then:

• Sometimes, talking to the Shrine Maiden on Neudaiz would cause the game to stall. The only fix was to turn off the console or terminate the network connection. This appears to have been fixed.
• [B] Ryusaikanoh now drops from Delp Slami with relative ease in the Maximum Attack G event. Prior to the event, it was speculated the enemy drop was glitched or the drop rate was ridiculously high.
• The Ryusaikanoc is glitched. When synthed, this laser cannon will have the name of the Ryusaikanoh and no description. However, it will have the proper stats
• If you decide to buy DB's Sword from player shops, you will need to search for "DB's" or "DB's Saber." Due to the way the player shop search system is setup, looking for "DB's Sword" will cause the game to look for a sword-type weapon that has the name "DB's" in it. DB's Sword is a saber-type weapon.

Credit goes to Neoptolemus for discovering the Shrine Maiden fix, Kerry157 for the Ryusaikanoh information, and Cadamar for the DB's Sword observation.

As reported by PSO-World member Cranberry, the US XBox Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2 servers appear to have been shutdown a week early. XBox players have been unable to login since the last maintenance period on April 22nd. It is currently unknown whether users will receive a pro-rated refund for this early shutoff, on top of the one that was planned to be payed back.

You can share your reaction to this event in our Phantasy Star Online forum.

After a brief delay this morning, the Maximum Attack G event is now available! To access the main event mission, Guardians must talk to Mina on the fifth floor of Guardian Colony. For now, this mission takes place in Forest, Caves, and Mines. The goal is to eliminate all of the enemies and collect badges from boxes. These badges can then be traded in a side-mission for Phantasy Star Online themed items. As the global kill counter increases, new areas and prizes related to the event will be unlocked.


Aside from the trade-in items, participants will have the chance to win the following by completing various tasks:

• Spread Needle/G - Place in the Top 500 on the Kill Ranking Board.
• Gold Metal (Room Decoration) - Be the top-ranking the Time Attack Ranking Board.
• Silver Medal (Room Decoration) - Given to the 2nd through 40th place top Time Attack Ranking players.
• Bronze Medal (Room Decoration) - Place in the 41st to 100th bracket on the Time Attack board.
• Bouquet - Given when a team increases the global kill counter past a multiple of 50,000.

Outside of the event, several new items were released at the Casino and in stores. Guardian Colony Stores now offer all of the available PSO Clothing and the Neudaiz Shelving room decoration. New items at the casino include the Robopitch Grenade/C, Hikec/C, Vishic/C, and Secret Cave room theme.

Finally, the game received several system improvements as discussed in this news article.

Earlier today, the Sega website confirmed that Maximum Attack G will have a leaderboard. ChillAura and RubyEclipse - both members of the Sega GM Team - clarified this will be a joint-server kill count board. The top 500 players with the highest kill counts during the event will receive the Spread Needle/G.

Earlier today, Sonic Team announced a massive update on Friday for the PC/Playstation 2 and XBox 360 servers. This update will include the start of the Maximum Attack G event, new items, and several game improvements! Here is an overview of the game improvements:

• Job Level Caps will be raised to 20.
• Chikki Kyoren-jin will have its base-power dramatically reduced.
• The stats (Accuracy, Percentage, Attack Power) on all Rifle Photon Arts will be increased.
• Elemental percentages on several Laser Cannon photon arts will be improved.
• The PP cost on several Gi and Nos Technics is being reduced.
• The ability to level Photon Arts using automated means is being removed through modified enemy behavior in certain missions.

Credit goes to EspioKaos for bringing us this news. You can read more about these changes in this forum thread.

Update! After posting the initial maintenance notes on the Japanese 360 site, SonicTeam made a few additions to the already numerous system updates we'll be receiving Friday. These additions include:

• Fighgunners' proficiency with machineguns, handguns and twin handguns will be upgraded from A to S.
• Guntechers' proficiency with wands will be upgraded from A to S. They will also receive a boost in their base TP.
• Fortetechers will receive an HP boost.

Thanks to gamewrap for the tip!